shopify-category-taxonomy

shopify-category-taxonomy is a skill for Claude Code from kgelster/awesome-ecom-skills. It costs 144 tokens per session (3,138 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for assigning Shopify's standard product category and filling the category-specific fields that appear after assignment. Shopify is an online store platform, and its taxonomy is the standard system for organizing products.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to categorize Shopify products and populate their taxonomy fields through the Shopify Admin API or admin workflow.
Why use it?
They clarify the required order: a product must have a category before fields such as color, size, or material can be filled, and they document the needed store access.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the ecom plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use them to categorize Shopify products and populate their taxonomy fields through the Shopify Admin API or admin workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kgelster/awesome-ecom-skills/shopify-category-taxonomy
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add kgelster/awesome-ecom-skills --skill shopify-category-taxonomy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kgelster/awesome-ecom-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ecom, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,138 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 34
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 38
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 39
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00144 $0.03138
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01569
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00628
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00314

Measured 12d ago against content hash 696e4ecfc8c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shopify-category-taxonomy scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s "https://$SHOPIFY_STORE/admin/api/2025-07/graphql.json" \
skills/shopify-category-taxonomy/SKILL.md · 294 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 294 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shopify Category Taxonomy

Two jobs that chain together: assign a product's Standard Product Taxonomy category (Part 1), then fill the category metafields that category exposes (Part 2). You cannot do Part 2 until Part 1 is true: the "Category metafields" panel only exists once a product is assigned to a category. Bulk CSV data work lives in the sibling shopify-matrixify; the one thing Matrixify cannot do is mint the reserved value metaobjects Part 2 needs, which is the entire reason this skill exists.

Store access

Lane A: custom-app token (scriptable). Shopify admin → Settings → Apps and sales channels → Develop apps → create an app → grant the four scopes below → install → copy the Admin API access token. Export it; never write it to disk:

export SHOPIFY_STORE="your-store.myshopify.com"
export SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN="<your Admin API access token>"   # env, not disk
curl -s "https://$SHOPIFY_STORE/admin/api/2025-07/graphql.json" \
  -H "X-Shopify-Access-Token: $SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"query":"{ shop { name } }"}'

Minimum scopes: read_products, write_products, read_metaobjects, write_metaobjects. The metaobjects pair is not optional (see the null trap).

Lane B: Shopify CLI OAuth (no stored token). shopify store auth --store $SHOPIFY_STORE --scopes read_products,write_products,read_metaobjects,write_metaobjects then shopify store execute. Good for token-less stores where the owner logs in interactively.

Toolkit preflight. Lane B rides on the Shopify CLI: run shopify version first and install it if missing. For the full Admin GraphQL schema and validated execution, pair this skill with Shopify's official AI toolkit plugin. In Claude Code, check claude plugin list; if it isn't there:

claude plugin marketplace add Shopify/Shopify-AI-Toolkit
claude plugin install shopify-plugin@shopify-ai-toolkit

Recommended, not required: Lane A needs only curl and a token. The toolkit gives your agent the API; this skill gives it the playbook.

Read the full file on GitHub · 294 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 294 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A 696e4ecfc8c4

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shopify-category-taxonomy is a skill published in the GitHub repository kgelster/awesome-ecom-skills (46 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 3,138 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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